The Festival of Samhain was an ancient Celtic festival, falling on October 31st. A day which also marks Catholic All-Souls-Day and the secular Halloween, both strongly colored by the Celtic festival... This was a common flame binding together the entire community. Read the rest of this entry » Originally published at Michael and Jaspenelle by Jaspenelle . Please leave any comments there.

...days a week for a little over a year now. It became REALLY easy when they opened a Daiso a mile from my apartment! I'm a pescetarian, but fish is very rarely in my diet, so almost everything is vegetarian. So, hi, here are some of my past bentos. Everything's homemade unless I indicate otherwise. Bigger tier: Edamame and homemade gyoza with a whale of a dipping sauce. Smaller tier: Roasted...

I've had kind of a rough week, and it's been a challenge just getting bento in the boxes and out the door on time, much less getting a decent photo. But there's this one: This is tri-colored pasta... nutritious lunch. This one's maybe a tad protein-light, but I don't worry so much about the balance of individual meals as I do try to keep things in line over the day, and over a rolling three-day window

Carianne: "We have a new kid at school! His name's Joe. Guess who he looks like!" Me: ". . . Joe?" Carianne: "No! Ben!" Me: ". . . Well, that was strange and unexpected." Carianne: "Actually, he looks...from Drive-By. I should learn his name, considering his head somehow ended up under my skirt last time I saw them. It's a long story. I got soy chocolate pudding today. Vegan!Elizabeth is happy

Steamed broccoli and carrots, purple(!) sweet potato, 1/2 vegetarian italian sausage, brown rice w/ peper and umeboshi

Hi Everyone! I just found this community off an About.com article.  I have been vegetarian for almost 3 years and have been wanting to be vegan for a while.  I work a lot and have little time at home to cook meals for me and my husband (still a meat eater, but I'm working on that).  Do you have any tips for transitioning from vegetarian to vegan and know of any quick and easy meals I could make for...

I went to go listen to a speaker for school about 30 minutes north of where I live. So I decided to see if there was any Asian groceries up there. Well there was and it was beautiful and so much better...dashi stock, and I'm rather excited. I haven't been able to find it around here.. Bottom: Broccoli, carrots, vegetable dumplings(Asian grocery!), soy sauce, grapes Top: 1/2 a plum, edamam

I just got back from spending a few weeks in Indian and I am suprisingly not off my curry! The food I enjoyed the most was in Kerala, we stayed in a homestay and our Keralan "Mum" cooked us delicious food...the beans (but not mixing in), add curry leaf and salt to taste. Cover the pan and cook on a low heat for 5 minutes. Stir well and serve hot with rice and a kazillion other delicious curries etc

...black eyed peas; you can tell that I was already suffering legume fatigue when I wrote about them here . In a fit of bean-induced frustration, I took a giant batch of cooked black eyed peas and made vegetarian chili, which still lasted me two days but was enough of a spice-up literally and figuratively that the beans became palatable again. Though this chili was good and the beans were extremely economical...

Bento 9: Today's Bento Egg salad sandiwch on wheat bread in the back, grape skewers, baby carrots, container of applesauce, blue containers of cut up pear, and an apple fruit leather and a dark chocolate... dove dark chocolate underneath, string cheese, baby carrots, and homemade potato salad with red pepper and carrot "hearts". Hopefully this will hold me for a long debate class I have tomorrow